A wise professor once told me that if you stick with something long
enough, devote enough of your life to it, you will eventually be
successful at that thing. Few words have shaped my adult life more
than those. Well, besides "liquor before beer" and "never shave
against the grains." I guess that's essentially my way of saying I
am doing what I love and am a better, happier person for it.

I have written, revised, started over, and rewritten this shit more
times than I can count, so rather than another tired attempt at
waxing poetic about how awesome I am, bullet points it is!!

-Musician and teacher.
-Left Wing, freethinking fish-out-of-water in the great but
socially schizophrenic state of Texas.
-Love traveling. Last trip was to Colorado and New Mexico.
-Sort of a car guy. You may chalk that one up into my "guilty
pleasures" category.
-INTJ
-Very family oriented. I visit with my immediate family at least
once a week.
-As a kid, I wanted nothing more than to be a meteorologist. Or
whatever exactly it was that Steve Irwin did. Doing either of those
things still sounds pretty cool to the adult me.
-Looking for a serious relationship with someone I have a lot in
common with. Level-headedness, higher education, and the ability to
communicate thoughts and needs effectively are extremely important
to me! I value smarts over nearly everything else. If you are not
able to communicate well, alarm bells go a-ringin' in my head!

Practicing, performing, writing, teaching, and generally digging
the hell out of what I do. I play sax and write/arrange horn parts
for a funk/soul band (original music). I'm also a private saxophone
lesson instructor for several large school districts and am in the
process of amassing my mega studio, muahahaha!! Life for me
generally consists of early mornings, late nights, and copious
amounts of driving. Much Red Bull is consumed.

Lost in Translation, Forrest Gump, Good Will Hunting, The Shawshank
Redemption, or anything by the Cohen Bros, Spielberg, Tarantino, or
Aronofsky.

Cosmos, Breaking Bad, The Newsroom, Colbert Report, Trailer Park
Boys, Mythbusters, Top Gear, and Deadliest Catch. All of that being
said, I'm TERRIBLE at keeping up with tv shows.

Shostakovich's 5th Symphony played by Chicago is absolutely
incredible and trumps anything else I could list here, but Sigur
Ros and Death Cab are both near and dear to me. My musical tastes
run the gamut of things not including bro country or screamy angsty
teenager "rock". Get off my lawn kids!